Coiling device.



L. E. HAYNES.

COILING DEVICE.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 23. 1914.

Patented May 25, 1915.

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Application led lune 23, i914. Serial No.846,'807.

T0 all whom t may concimi,

Be it known that Il, LORENZO E. HAYNES,

'a citizen of the United States, and a resident of ISalt Lake City, in the county of Salt Lake and State of "Utah, have invented a new and lmproved Ceiling Device, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

My invention is more particularly applicable to the flexible conductor or cord connected With the receiver of a telephone..

rlhe object of my invention is to provide a novel means'to automatically coil the said cord or other flexible element to Which the device is applied and holds the coilwvith its ccnvolutions in close relation, the arrangement permitting the cord to approach a straight form by extension in the line of its axis or approximately so in response to a 'pull thereon.

ln carrying out my invention in practice,

the coiling device is formed of a sinuous elongated element such as a sinuous 'Wire, which is given the form of a coiled spring, the sinuosities ofthe Wire serving to hold the cord to the spring. The convolutions of the spring, as such, serve to maintain the cord in the form of a coil in Which the con'- volutions follow and conform tothe said convolutions of the spring. Meansmis provided for irixedly securing one end of the spring to the cord, and for attaching the y other end of the spring to a relatively ixed support.

Reference is'to be had to the accompanying drawings forming a part of this specification in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in both views.

Figure l is a perspective view of a telephone having ,my invention appliedto the cord of the receiver; and Fig. 2 is an en-' larged side elevation showing a portion of the cord With my improved ceiling device applied thereto.

, The drawing shows the coiling device applied to a cord A of the receiver B of a telephone C The body of the coiling device consists of a coiled spring 10 which is formed of a sinuous Wire, the sinuosities of which are desirably formed to present lateral convolutions that Wind about the cord A, or other flexible element to which the device is applied. The

coiled spring is fastened at one-end 11 to 'the cord, preferably by providing an untempered yportion of the Wirte -Which may be tightly Wound in close coils around the cord. At the opposite end of the coiled spring a fastener device designated generally by the numeral l2 is provided, of a character to enter the cord hole D in the base of the telephone. Said device, which may be pivoted as at 13 to the adjacent end of the Wire, is'

formed of resilient Wire and return-bent to present diverging side arms 14.-, the divergent ends of which are bent toward each other, as at 15, one terminal forming the piv- 'otal connection 13, While the other, 16, re-

-such maintains the cord in coiled form, presenting convolutions following the convolutions of the spring. Thus the cord is engaged at each of its convolutions by the spring, and alseparation of the coils of the cord may be effected by a pull upon the cord, the resiliency of the spring tending to restore the cord to its closer coiled form.,-

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and' desire tosecure by Letters Patent:

1. The combination With. a flexible ele- 'ment, of a coiled spring formed of'spiralv Wire, the spiral convolutions of the Wire Winding about said element, and the .con-- volutions'of the spring normally maintaining said element coiled, the convolutions of the coiled spring and element being free to yield and straighten'in response to a pulling force.

2. The combination With a flexible element, of a spiral spring formed of a spiral Wire, the convolutions of the wire winding about the said element, and the latter following Ithe convolutions of the coils of the spring, said spring being fastened at one end to said element, and having means at the opposite end :foi-.connection with a relatively fixed support.

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3. A. ceiling device comprising a coiled spring formed of sinuous Wire.

Liliane@ element, of a holding element presenting spiral convolutions Winding about the said exible element, said holding element being l5 formed into a spiral spring.

ln testimony whereof ll have signed my name to this specication in the presence olI two subscribing Witnesses.

LORENZ@ E. HAYNES. l/Vitnessesz i Y JOSEPH E. HAYNES, Mrs. E. M. SUTTON., 

